Coto Makasar ( beef offal herbs spices and grind peanuts )

True to its name Coto Makassar is soupy dish that comes from Makassar, South Sulawesi, Indonesia. In every street in the city of Makassar, can be easily found stalls that provide Coto Makassar. Taste this dish at every stall was almost exactly the same, but that makes it different is given extra spice by each merchant. And it is no secret kitchen respectively.

Coto Makassar-based beef, coupled with beef offal, such as lung, liver, intestine, heart and tripe. While the sauce is a blend of several herbs spices and grind peanuts that have been fried. This dish is tasty or not depends on the seasoning sauce.

Herb spices consisting of 40 types cooked in clay pots called the surroundings or uring butta butta. Type skillet used to cook trusted participate also affect taste Coto Makassar. 40 kinds of spices that include peanuts, pecans, cloves, nutmeg, lemongrass finely ground, ginger, pepper, onion, garlic, cumin, cilantro, red, white coriander, ginger, galangal, kaffir lime leaves, bay leaves, leaf saffron, leeks, celery, red chili, green chili, sugar talla, tamarind, cinnamon, salt, papaya to soften the meat, and lime to clean the bowel. It is said that spice is not only useful to determine the sense of Coto Makassar, but also as an antidote to cholesterol in the viscera.

Also alleged that the Coto Makassar has existed since Somba Opu, center of the Kingdom of Gowa, who had triumphed in 1538.